I keep imagining the White House with a big, really big neon
sign TRUMP across the top of the roof.

Count me as fully supporting the candidacy of Donald Big
Mouth Trump. Why? Because for a long time we have had a
delusional democracy, the product of a political system destroyed by both major
political parties and the moneyed interests supporting both of them. Trump is the only possible president capable
of productively disrupting this fake democracy, actually a plutocracy. It is more rational to fear whatever
conventional Democrat or Republican won the presidency than to fear Trump. More of the same is far more frightening than
nothing like this before. Moreover,
there are sufficient constitutional checks from the other two branches of the
federal government to curb fears of nutty actions by President Trump.

The pundits and intelligentsia enjoy demeaning Trump
supporters as ignorant, uncouth, racist schmucks. Sure they have every right to be totally fed
up with our political system. Who
wouldn't be? But how can they possibly
buy into the insanity, stupidity and insulting rhetoric of Trump? I think all these shocked people on the right
and left still don't see the larger truth.

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We must imagine something akin to electric shock therapy
applied forcibly to the political system.
Many urgently needed reforms will never be pushed by any conventional
Republican or Democrat. In our
delusional democracy ordinary elections can no longer produce the cleansing
that our filthy, corrupt system needs. I
believe that many millions of Americans who do not vote would be motivated to
vote for Trump. They would enjoy sending
a big F-you to the establishment. I
certainly would. I would like to see polling
of people eligible to vote but who have not voted in past presidential
elections.

Sure, I confess that I would have preferred Michael
Bloomberg spending a billion of his dollars on a presidential campaign as a
third party candidate. But I gladly
accept Trump as a second choice, even as a faux Republican.

I am a highly educated former full professor, former
official at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the National
Governors Association, and author of a number of books, including Delusional
Democracy. I say this to demonstrate
that Trump surely has more current and potential supporters than the media and
political establishment can accept.
Unlike Trump, they have no imagination.
The Donald, to his credit, is really on to something Great. I hope that many more Americans recognize
that he is exactly what the nation needs.
Stick that middle finger up at all the chronic liars that have sold out
the vast majority of Americans. We
really do have to make America
great Again or watch its continuing slide into a two-class society based on
economic inequality. Only a traitor to
the upper, upper powerful class of insanely rich Americans can save the nation.

Joel S. Hirschhorn is the author of Delusional Democracy - Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government and several other books, as well as hundreds of articles. His current political writings have been greatly influenced by working (more...)

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